Wedding Favors

For our wedding favors (after lots of looking around for ideas!) I decided on little food kits.

We had Candies Galore (just lollies) hot choc kit and S'more kits.

They went done well, people really liked them and our guests got to keep the jar as a little thing to remember the day!

So what you need:

-Jars, your choice of size and shape etc, I chose hexagonal 70mm tall with gold lids. I got my jars form the jar place in wellington- Arthur Holmes LTD, its in Newtown its is soooo fun!! $60

-ingredients for your jars - for the three types I did I needed:

hot choc: choc chips, hot choc mix (I picked cadbury) and mini marshmallows

S'more kits: choc chips, mini marshmallows and some sort of mini biscuit (I picked tiny teddys) just so they fit in the jar

Candies Galore: A fun mix of Lollies! $40

- Sticker paper ( you can get this online, I found mine on trade-me, or stationary shops) $10

- Printer

Total Cost was around $110 - $1.30 a favor which was very much in budget!

Once you have everything you need, fill your jars put the lid on and stick the label on and your done!

It took my a day to make 80 favors

I have put up the clip art on the tutorials page..

Engagment Invites!

So my partner Sam proposed to my a couple of weeks ago!! super exciting!! and now comes all the fun-ness of organising a wedding!! We want a DYI wedding with a vintage/rustic theme - as we have a very little budget. I am going to blog all of these fun parts and how I have done it on our little budget. so here we go...

Here is my first part - the engagement party invite. I have designed them like a vintage envelope the folds up and closed with a sticker. I used Manilla folders as I wanted a heavy brown textured card that I could print on to, fold and stick - ready to go with my need for envelopes. I made 40 invites.

Cost:

$2 for the manilla folders ( I brought 100 for $20 which I will use for the wedding invites)

$20 stamps!

$1 sticker paper

Strawberries!

Finally I get some Strawberries off my plants this year and don't they look good!

Christmas Bits and bobs

I really liked the gift wrapping I did for jewellery over Christmas, so here is a pic. And some little sweets I make, thought they just looked pretty as well as being the best choclates I have ever had! There called chocolate pistachio Cookies I found on the Martha Stewart site here.

Stamps!

I saw this basic way of making stamps the other day using erasers and carving in to them - they work really well!

Crafty Project!

While looking after my nieces on Friday we had some spare time in the afternoon so we did a little craft project! I thought they came out really cute! First, after I cut out the shapes, they drew on them, then I used a hole punch to punch holes around the edges so they could sew the toys up by themselves, using a big needle and wool - their six and four but it was easy enough for them both to do it!- Then we used gem glue so stick on all the gems. It was a really fun project for the girls and they love their toys!

Merry Christmas!!!

Doll House!

I brought this old doll house from trash place the other week and I'm planing on doing it up for Elliette and Tamlyn for Christmas! So here is the before shots...

Moss Terrarium!

So I was looking on Etsy and found these awesome little gardens called Terrariums. Then had a nostalgic moment remember the ones my grandparents had at their house in the conservity and I loved them! Anything tiny I love and this is tiny and living so even better!! I'm going to have a go myself tomorrow.

here are some cool ones I found on etsy.

By Blithegardens - www.blithegarden.etsy.com

By Doodlebirdie www.doodlebirdie.etsy.com

By Weegreenspot - www.weegreenspot.etsy.com

Another I heart my new camera moment...

Plush you!

I got this great book for christmas called Plush you! its a great book with lots of cool toys and some patterns in the back!

This is my favorite plush in the book, by longoland called the fuzzy monster. He reminds me of my little aussy terrier/shitzu cross who has a really bad underbite!

plush you blog

Christmas Time!

For Christmas this year I'm doing mostly foodie prezzys, homemade chutney, banana cake and nutty chocolates! all wrapped up in natural materials, linen brown paper and twine and chinese boxes

Sulky transfer pen!

I found this really cool pen the other day on ebay, its a transfer pen, you draw on to any paper and iron it on the any fabric. here is my first try of it..